Het Pascha

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...as a subject matter for the plays he wrote. By treating classical themes as adumbrations of Christian truths, he was able to reconcile Renaissance learning with his own personal religious faith.
Het Pascha (1612; “The Passover”), a dramatization of the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt, was his most important early work, in which the power and splendour of his verse is already...